The Scenario
You're a content strategist and the product launch is in 48 hours. You have a sheet with 40 product page URLs in column A and the vanity alias you want for each in column B — things like "launch-pro" and "summer-bundle-2026." The brief says every link in the launch email needs to be a branded short URL, not a generic tinyurl.com/abc123.
The campaign manager asked for the final link list this morning. You haven't started yet because you assumed this would take five minutes and then discovered it doesn't.
The bad version:
- Log into TinyURL, navigate to the create form, paste the URL from row 2, type the alias from column B, click create, copy the result, go back to the sheet, paste into column C, return to TinyURL, repeat.
- Hit row 12 and discover the alias "summer-bundle" is already taken — now you need to decide on an alternate, go back to the sheet, note the conflict, figure out a fallback, come back to TinyURL.
- Finish the 40 rows in 35 minutes, check the list, realize you skipped row 29 entirely.
The launch brief has other line items on it. This one task has consumed the morning.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the columns you point it at, understands the relationship between the URL and the alias, and uses its TinyURL integration to create every branded short link in one pass — writing results back into a column you specify.
For each row in my "Launch Links" tab, create a TinyURL short link using the URL in column A and the custom alias in column B. Write the resulting short link into column C.
What You Get
- Column C fills with branded TinyURL short links, each using the alias from column B.
- Any alias that is already taken gets flagged in column D with the note "alias unavailable" so you can see which rows need a fallback decision.
- Rows where column B is empty get a generic short link instead of a custom alias.
- All 40 rows process in a single operation.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The alias column has inconsistent formatting — some aliases have spaces, some have capital letters that won't work in a URL
For each row in my "Launch Links" tab, clean the alias in column B by converting it to lowercase and replacing spaces with hyphens, then create a TinyURL using the URL in column A and the cleaned alias. Write the short link into column C.
I want to tag each link with the campaign name from column D before creating it
For each row in my "Launch Links" tab, create a TinyURL using the URL in column A, the alias in column B, and tag it with the value in column D. Write the short link into column C.
The product URLs and aliases are on different tabs — URLs on "Products" and aliases on "Aliases" — matched by SKU in column A of both
Join the "Products" and "Aliases" tabs on the SKU in column A, then for each matched row create a TinyURL using the URL from the "Products" tab and the alias from the "Aliases" tab. Write the short links into column C of the "Products" tab.
I need to shorten the links, tag them, apply the alias, and flag any rows where the destination URL returns a 404 before creating the short link
For each row in my "Launch Links" tab, check that the URL in column A is reachable, then create a TinyURL with the alias in column B and the campaign tag in column D. Write the short link into column C. For any URL that returns an error, write "check URL" into column E instead.
One prompt, one pass — no separate validation step before the create operation.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your campaign link sheet, then ask it to create a branded TinyURL for every row using your alias column. Also see: bulk shorten a URL column and the TinyURL integration overview.